Powerful nations and influential corporations have always the controlled predominant side of society, suppressing and oppressing the subcultures which exists within along the way. However, incognito resistance groups, also known as the underground, have risen up to rebel against the powerful nations and influential corporations. From the great escape route to the North from the South during the Slave Era in the U.S., to an outlet of expressive music within an oppressive country, and from resistance to a tyrannical government to pugnacity to internet censorship, underground groups have always been active in their cause. Although underground movements often go unrecognized, the impact of such movements such as the Underground Railroad, Underground Hip-Hop in China, the Bielski Partisans and the Red Orchestra, and the internet activist group Anonymous, cannot be ignored. During the Slave Era in the United States, abolitionists and volunteers have risked their lives in order to secure the freedom for slaves through the Underground Railroad. In her book Fleeing to Freedom on the Underground Railroad, Elaine Landau describes the Underground Railroad as a “loose and often informal arrangements escape network to assist slaves escape to the North” and that it “was neither underground nor a railroad” (21). According to the National Park Service, those who participated in helping free the slaves were the New England Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society, which numbered to be about 250,000 total (23). Remarkably, the underground network assisted 50,000 to 100,000 slaves (Kelly). The National Service Park points out the significance of the effort to free slaves: The War to save the Union inevitably became the war to free slaves, not just to secure African American soldiers, weaken the Confederacy, and acquire the approval of Europe, especially Britain, but also because African Americans themselves used every opportunity to demonstrate that, once slavery’s chain was cracked, it would never be repaired. (National Service Park). As Landau describes it in her book, the Underground Railroad holds “a special place” in our history as a “literal and symbolic road to freedom” (71). In the subject of popular culture, underground resistance in the form of hip-hop allows artists to express their discontentment with the world. Ever since the emergence of underground hip-hop in China over the past 20 years, more and more youths have been able to “express their anger and frustration with the government” (Kamhi). For example, the famous underground hip-hop group called